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Month December 2013

The prevalence, pathways and processes of long-term addiction recovery have been hidden from public view for far too long. Most importantly, recovery has been invisible to those most in need of its transforming presence. Recovery has long been cloistered behind the walls of treatment centers and within the rooms of mutual aid meetings. Today, recovery(……)

There is a discrepancy for each of us between the internal self and the personas we project to others. Personal health, wholeness and integrity hinge in great measure on the degree to which these private and public selves can be brought into harmony. That reconciliation is potentially life-saving for persons seeking the metamorphosis from active(……)

In my writings to people seeking recovery from addiction, I have advocated a stance of total personal responsibility: Recovery by any means necessary under any circumstances. That position does not alleviate the accountabilities of addiction treatment as a system of care. Each year, more than 13,000 specialized addiction treatment programs in the United States serve(……)

“In the Red Road to Wellbriety, the individual, family and community are not separate; they are one. To injure one is to injure all; to heal one is to heal all.” -The Red Road to Wellbriety, 2002 As a field, we have long known that the effects of personal addiction(……)

Regular visitors to this website know how strongly I feel about the need to shift the organizing center of the alcohol and other drugs problem arena toward a recovery paradigm and how vitally important it is to clearly define and measure recovery at personal, professional, systems performance and policy levels. Last year, I encouraged visitors(……)